The Story of Work by Jan Lucassen - 9780300267068

Yale University Press

The Story of WorkA New History of Humankind\nAuthor(s): Jan Lucassen\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Yale University Press, United States\nImprint: Yale University Press\nISBN-13: 9780300267068, 978-0300267068\nSynopsis\nThe first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day\nBeginning in the hunting-and-gathering past, this long view of work shows how little has changed over millennia. Progressing through the rise of cities, wages and markets for labour, it traces a perennial cycle of injustice and resistanceand the age-old desire for [url] Economist, Best Books of 2021\nAbsolutely fascinating. . . . Lucassens own compassion shines through this magisterial [url] Patterson, The Guardian\n We work because we have to, but also because we like it: from hunting-gathering more than 700,000 years ago to the present era of zoom meetings, humans have always worked to make the world around them serve their needs.\n Jan Lucassen provi.